For the first time
in "living memory", pāteke ducklings have been spotted in the
Abel Tasman National Park.
More than seven months after a
group of 20 juvenile pāteke, or brown teal, were released in the national
park, a group of six ducklings have been captured on camera.
Project Janszoon ornithologist Ron
Moorhouse said while it was early days, it was "incredibly
encouraging" to see the birds breeding in their first year in the
park.
A group of six brown teal
ducklings were captured on camera in Hadfield Clearing, behind Awaroa in the
Abel Tasman National Park. It is thought to be the first time the rare native
duck has bred inside the park.
"It is the first time we
think this has happened in living memory, that pāteke have nested and
bred in the Abel Tasman."
He said the ducklings were
believed to be a week or so old.
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